Sentences with phrase «rapid changes in the climate»

This opens up opportunities for the development of theories involving major natural phenomena, such as rapid changes in the climate.

We were particularly interested in the nature of this relationship because of the hypothesized seasonal movement of krill to inshore waters around the Antarctic Peninsula in winter, rapid changes in the climate and sea ice patterns of the Antarctic peninsula [15], [16] and the known relationships between baleen whales and krill.

Another way of putting it is that if the weather record that was broken last week was set last year then we're probably in the midst of a rapid change in climate.

If the study of paleoclimatology has taught us one thing, it is that rapid changes in climate lead to the devastation of living things that have evolved to thrive in particular conditions.

So, for that case with rapid northern temperature change and other rapid changes in the climate system, the methane acted as a feedback, fast enough to be considered in economic planning, but not so fast that most people would consider it a runaway.

He said: «In our study we see very rapid changes in the climate of the North Pacific that we think are linked to past changes in ocean currents in the Atlantic.

Researchers do know, however, that past fluctuations in methane concentrations over the Northern Hemisphere closely mirrored rapid changes in climate.

«In responding to those rapid changes in climate, organisms will encounter a highly fragmented landscape that is dominated by a broad range of human influences,» the study said.

While humans may be largely to blame for the rapid changes in climate, the key to slowing it down also mainly lies in human hands.

There are plenty of reasons to respond rationally to the very rapid changes in climate (rapid in geological terms) over the last few centuries, whether you accept they are man - made or not.

It is clear from extensive scientific evidence that the dominant cause of the rapid change in climate of the past half century is human - induced increases in the amount of atmospheric greenhouse gases -LSB-...] Since long - term measurements began in the 1950s, the atmospheric CO2 concentration has been increasing at a rate much faster than at any time in the last 800,000 years.

In a study that could show how rapid changes in climate could devastate global ecosystems, a group of British scientists have [continue reading...]

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It found the rapid pace of global warming and the slow pace of coral growth meant the reef was unlikely to evolve quickly enough to survive the level of climate change predicted in the next few decades.

«Without rapid cuts in CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions, we will be heading for dangerous temperature increases by the end of this century, well above the target set by the Paris climate change agreement,» Petteri Taalas, the WMO's secretary - general, said in a statement.

In a climate of rapid change, it is difficult to project costs.

It features mid-weight fabric construction which is suitable for most climates, an easy close fastener to assist in rapid nappy changes and is machine washable in warm water.

The landscape of Massachusetts has been transformed by rapid residential and commercial development while the climate has been changing in parallel.

Alternatively (and given the rapid changes that seem to be possible in this new climate) could minor parties or even new parties rise up to take their place?

In an interview, Hawkins said that activists still face many challenges, from fighting the inevitable industry lawsuits to overturn the ban, to challenging the fracking infrastructure of pipelines across the state and gas storage in the salt caverns near Seneca Lake, to campaigning for a «state plan for a rapid transition to 100 percent green energy to fight climate change, lower electric costs and create millions of new jobs,» he said..In an interview, Hawkins said that activists still face many challenges, from fighting the inevitable industry lawsuits to overturn the ban, to challenging the fracking infrastructure of pipelines across the state and gas storage in the salt caverns near Seneca Lake, to campaigning for a «state plan for a rapid transition to 100 percent green energy to fight climate change, lower electric costs and create millions of new jobs,» he said..in the salt caverns near Seneca Lake, to campaigning for a «state plan for a rapid transition to 100 percent green energy to fight climate change, lower electric costs and create millions of new jobs,» he said....

Climate change is having a dramatic impact on Earth's biodiversity, by causing rapid fluctuations in temperature and precipitation that alter species» environments.

Since the algal species is native to eastern Canada, its recent blooms and rapid proliferation in rivers since 2006 — which have angered anglers looking for pristine waters — have been caused by an environmental trigger, with climate change a likely culprit, said Michelle Lavery, a master's degree student at the Canadian Rivers Institute and lead author of the research, published in theCanadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.

Climate change projections that look ahead one or two centuries show a rapid rise in temperature and sea level, but say little about the longer picture.

«Climate change has been a feature of Earth's entire history, and has been both rapid and large in the past.

These animals» sizes likely resulted from relatively rapid climate change, suggest the authors of a new study published online Thursday in Science.

Its core is a flurry of recent research proposing that such extreme weather events in the midlatitudes are linked through the atmosphere with the effects of rapid climate change in the Arctic, such as dwindling sea ice.

A sudden halt to the use of such methods, due to issues such as major negative effects, would also lead to rapid climate change, to which ecosystems and societies would have difficulty in adapting.

A new study says that climate - induced feedback loops could lead to a change in ocean stratification and the more rapid melting of ice sheets.

Ice - sheet growth, coupled with favorable changes in Earth's orbit, pushed the planet past a climatic tipping point and led to both the rapid buildup of a permanent ice sheet in the Antarctic and much larger changes in global climate, says Hren.

Scientists have discovered that the rapid spread of hybridization between a native species and an invasive species of trout in the wild is strongly linked to changes in climate.

If you don't do anything about those, then you are in trouble in all the others: more people, means more greenhouse gases, which means more rapid climate change.»

While some may see evidence of rapid glacier thinning in the past and again today as evidence that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is nearing a collapse driven by human - caused climate change, Steig said at this point, scientists just don't know whether that is the case.

The more we know about natural rapid climate change, the better we can help climate modelers forecast how climate might change in the future now that human activity is added to the mix.»

Two pieces examine how climate change is affecting marine biological systems: Schofield et al. (p. 1520) illustrate and discuss the role of ocean - observation techniques in documenting how marine ecosystems in the West Antarctic Peninsula region are evolving, and Hoegh - Guldberg and Bruno (p. 1523) present a more global view of the ways in which marine ecosystems are being affected by rapid anthropogenic variations.

«The climate, biology, and society in the Arctic are changing in rapid, complex, and interactive ways, with effects throughout the region and, increasingly, the globe,» finds the report from the National Research Council (NRC) of the U.S. National Academies.

They drew on estimates of how fast temperatures changed in the thousands of years following that maximum, indentifying regions of rapid climate shifts.

«Detailed chemical measurements in Antarctic ice cores show that massive, halogen - rich eruptions from the West Antarctic Mt. Takahe volcano coincided exactly with the onset of the most rapid, widespread climate change in the Southern Hemisphere during the end of the last ice age and the start of increasing global greenhouse gas concentrations,» according to McConnell, who leads DRI's ultra-trace chemical ice core analytical laboratory.

The pattern of rapid human colonisation through the Americas, coinciding with contrasting temperature trends in each continent, allowed the researchers to disentangle the relative impact of human arrival and climate change.

Over the last decade, the Chinese National Arctic Research Expedition (CHINARE) and U.S. collaborators have studied the environmental and climate changes of the western Arctic Ocean and has witnessed rapid expansion of the «acidified» water in the upper water column.

Dr Stephen Grimes of Plymouth University, who initiated the research project, highlighted the climate changes that must have caused this increase in sediment erosion and transport — «We have climate model simulations of the effect of warming on rainfall during the PETM event, and they show some changes in the average amounts of rainfall, but the largest change is how this rainfall is packaged up — it's concentrated in more rapid, extreme events — larger and bigger storms.»

We are not opposed to research into assisted migration as a potential, last - ditch response to climate change, particularly if the rate of warming is such that a rapid decline in coral cover occurs.

Emerging evidence for variability in the coral calcification response to acidification, geographical variation in bleaching susceptibility and recovery, responses to past climate change, and potential rates of adaptation to rapid warming supports an alternative scenario in which reef degradation occurs with greater temporal and spatial heterogeneity than current projections suggest.

The findings add to the few documented cases of rapid responses by wildlife to climate change, such as Rosemary and Peter Grant's studies of finches in the Galapagos archipelago for four decades starting in 1973.

To find out whether the climate - driven hypothesis was possible, Olive and his colleagues modeled three different ways in which such rapid pulses of magma might change the face of the sea floor.

The preconditions which gave rise to rapid temperature changes during the last ice age do not exist today, but sudden climate changes can not be excluded in future.»

Specifically, in the case of rapid action to slow catastrophic climate change, the best alternatives appear to be: methane and black carbon (otherwise known as soot).

Climate change is another: Rising temperatures can speed up cephalopods» already rapid growth rates, making them have babies more quickly, which in turn speeds up the growth of populations.

However, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned in its latest report that this could be an underestimate, because the computer models used may not be able to predict rapid changes in Antarctica's ice.

«They were re-colonising lands that had been lost for circa 10,000 years — economic migrants in a period of rapid global climate change, if you like.

From the International Energy Agency to the United Nations — sanctioned Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), such carbon capture and storage (CCS), particularly for coal - fired power plants, has been identified as a technology critical to enabling deep, rapid cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.

«1C rise in atmospheric temperature causes rapid changes to world's largest High Arctic lake: An interdisciplinary team of scientists explores Lake Hazen's response to climate change.»